                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

CREATION OF DEPARTMENT; APPOINTMENT OF DIRECTOR; DUTIES (§ 2.2-1100)

A. There is created a Department of General Services (the Department), which
shall be headed by a Director appointed by the Governor to serve at his
pleasure.

B. The Director of the Department shall, under the direction and control of the
Governor, exercise the powers and perform the duties conferred or imposed upon
him by law and perform such other duties as may be required by the Governor. The
Director shall be responsible for the overall supervision of the
Department&#8217;s divisions, programs and personnel. Under his direction the
Department shall serve as an agency whose services are primarily for the support
of other state agencies in carrying out their programs. The head of each
division shall, under the direction and control of the Director, exercise the
powers and perform the duties conferred by this chapter as they pertain to his
division and perform such other duties as required by the Director.

C. Whenever in this title and in the Code of Virginia, reference is made to a
division, department or agency transferred to this Department, it shall mean the
Department of General Services, through the division to which the powers and
duties of that division, department or agency are assigned. Notwithstanding
anything in this section to the contrary, the Director shall have the authority
to create new divisions within the Department and to assign or reassign the
duties of the Department&#8217;s divisions to whatever divisions as may best
perform them.

HISTORY: 1977, c. 672, §§ 2.1-422, 2.1-423, 2.1-425; 1978, c. 255; 1984, c.
720; 2001, c. 844; 2005, c. 385.